For those students who were unprepared today, you will need to BUY or FIND your composition book tonight and complete the attached assignment details from class today.
Also, please remember to sign up for the ILearn Class, if you did not do so as of yet.
Email me with any questions.
Please see the attached, updated, rubric discussed in class today. ALL students, who read at least one book over the summer, will begin presenting on Wednesday, September 5th.
See previous posts for examples (also shown and discussed in class today).
Email me with any questions.
Please find attached a list with some additional book selections for the summer reading, as students/parents requested more titles.
The original list was carefully constructed and contains a variety of genres and reading levels, up to, and including high school level.
This supplemental list contains the same variety, but most titles have a more mature theme, regardless of reading level. These books may better interest those who are looking for something more challenging.
Please email me with any questions.
Please find attached the information on summer learning expectations. The assignments are not optional and will receive a grade when the school year begins. All students were given this information before the end of the school year, as well. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Find attached the summer reading expectations for outgoing 8th graders heading to the 9th grade in the fall.
All students were given a copy of this paper and the information was discussed in class.
Please email me with any questions.
All students (who did not attend the trip to Kentucky) are required to do the following assignment. They will need to watch one of the following movies and complete the attached movie review. All students were aware that this would be a required assignment, if they were not in class this last three days. Again, this does not apply to those students who attended the Kentucky trip.
Watch one of the following:
Hairspray (2007)
Grease
or West Side Story
and then complete the attached review sheet.
All review sheets are due on Monday, June 11th.
As a FINAL reminder, all Outsiders Quilt Projects are due on Monday, June 4th. These are due to me on Monday, whether you attend school or not.
If you’re in school, it’s due at the beginning of the hour. If you are absent, it must be in my mailbox by 3 pm.
All directions and other information can be found in previous posts.
Have a great weekend.
On Friday, June 1st, all Literary Letters and Exit Tickets, and Book Timelines are due AND the Outsiders Quilt Project is due on Monday, June 4th.
Students have all of the information that they need to complete all of these assignments and have known about the dues dates for at least a week.
After doing a random check on the students progress on the quilts this week, I expect many of them will be spending a good amount of time completing them at home this weekend. They have had this assignment for over 3 weeks and were warned that it was a large portion of their grade and that putting it off until the last minute would be problematic.
Today I did a check on the progress students have made on their quilts; it did not go well :(.
Students have had 3 FULL WEEKS to work on this and many have little to nothing completed. There are only 5 days left to complete the entire project. I want to stress that students were given a month, because it takes more than a couple of hours to complete this task.
I want to remind everyone that this assignment is worth 50 SUMMATIVE, test points and will make a huge impact on their final grade for this card-marking (and perhaps the year).
The finished quilt is due on Monday, June 4th and will not be accepted after Friday, June 8th.
See earlier blog posts, if you need details of this assignment.
Please find attached a calendar of the last three weeks of school for Language Arts. This includes and overview of our activities, as well as important dues dates.
If a student is absent they are still responsible for all work that they miss, especially reading, no exceptions.
Please note that NO “late work” will be accepted after this Friday, June 1st. Also, no Quilts can be turned in after Tuesday, June 5th. If a student will be absent for a “turn in” day, please make sure the item is delivered to the office and placed in my mailbox.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
